Job Description

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our 35,000 employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.
Company Overview
At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our 39,000 employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.
Position Description:
The Global Lab Information and Data Solutions (IDS) team delivers and maintains applications that support the Global Lab organization at Lilly. This team is part of the broader Manufacturing and Quality (M&Q) IDS organization that continues to transform as we look to the digital plant of the future and support manufacturing operational excellence and productivity efforts maximizing the use of technology and analytics.
The Global Lab IDS team works in partnership with the Global Lab business central and site representatives to define business needs and provide solutions for Lab. This team is responsible for the support and solution delivery of IT tools that support the Global Lab business application portfolio, such as LIMS, LES, ELN, CDS, and Lab intelligence solution.
A key role in the Global Lab organization is the MQ IDS Labs Solution Delivery and Support Engineer position. This position will focus on the following key elements: -Deploy and maintain custom and off the shelf solutions in the Manufacturing Analytical Laboratories as well as creating visualizations and optimizing process though automation.
Key Objectives/Deliverables:

• Deliver IT solutions that are aligned with enterprise IT and QC Lab goals
• Influence life cycle decisions and establish of appropriate processes to ensure Lilly IT evolves to achieve future architecture direction.
• Deep understanding of IT Tools used by the M&Q Laboratories, the configuration of those tools, and how these tools interact to support the business processes and anticipate short term and future needs.
• Provide guidance on validation and test strategy, leverage the use of automation testing where applicable.
• Work with Global Quality Laboratories leadership (GQL), site IT Team, and Enterprise IT architecture on cross-organizational projects.
• Use Robotic Process Automation tools to maximize the efficiency of lab processes.
• Ensure application compliance to Lilly Standards and Quality rules. Write, or oversee creation of validation documentation for the supported systems.
• Acts as a Subject Matter Expert with vendors and external partners.
• Responsible for the resolution of any problems and incidents for the supported solutions in compliance with applicable processes and provide oversight to the Tier 1 support team.
• Use of analytics to enable business, this includes reports and dashboards.

Basic Requirements:

• Minimum 4-6 years of relevant manufacturing or QC Lab IT experience
• Knowledge of QC Lab operations or Manufacturing operations
• Hands on experience in supporting Lab applications like LES, LIMS, ELN, CDS
• Understanding of Data Solutions and visualizations
• Knowledge of S95 Architecture Model
• Ability to thrive in a complex, changing, virtual environment with multiple manufacturing sites.
• Demonstrated learning agility both technically as well as business processes and applications.
• Demonstrated initiative to build relationships. Influence peers and business partners
• Demonstrated ability to proactively identify issues and either resolve or escalate to the appropriate level for resolution.
• Strong problem-solving skills. Demonstrated ability to evaluate, facilitate, and drive towards risk-based decision making.
• Good communication skills (written/oral).
• Strong technical writing skills
• Process improvement skills
• Organization skills
• Self-management
• Knowledge of GAMP/FDA/EMEA validation standards, understanding of GMP, GLP and CRF 21 part 11
• Strong working knowledge of technical tools (SQL, PL/SQL,JAVA,C++, Unix, Openshift, Angular, Tableau, Denodo, Node JS, PostgrateSQL)
• Previous experience working with Windows, Linux and Oracle platforms.
• Experience with automation testing (Unified Functional Testing) and robotic process automation.

Additional Preferred Requirements:

• Pharmaceutical or healthcare industry experience
• Experience with interfacing automated equipment with Lab systems
• Experience with automation control and robotics
• Understanding of Agile methodology
• Experience with HP ALM and coding platforms like GitHub

Education Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent work experience) in computer science, Information Technology or Management Information Systems.
Other Information:

• Travel to US or other Lilly entities may be required.
• After hours support due to manufacturing 24/7 operations may be required

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